Mrs. Potts (Emma Thompson), Cogsworth (Ian McKellen) and Lumière (Ewan McGregor) look so cute as they band together, while Kevin Kline is barely recognisable under all that scruff as Belle's (Emma Watson) father Maurice.

Whether the finished movie is a keeper or a dud once released, it's obvious that Disney and The Twilight Saga director Bill Condon are crafting this remake with all the love and attention to detail of the original.

"I was so excited to hear that Disney was thinking of doing a live-action version of Beauty and the Beast," director Condon said in a recent behind-the-scenes teaser.

"When something is so perfect, why get near it? The answer is that technology has caught up to the ideas that were introduced in that movie."